The Portland daily press., 1887-06-02
were the following

Samuel Rolfe, Charles T. Varney,
Harry Spence, L. s. Bean
w. IL. ocott, Charles Cook,
n. w. Morse
After supper, President Dow called the
company to order, and said:
Gentlemen:
we are all at home here and trust we all
feel so. You who are not members are as
cordially welcome as those who are. We
nave distinguished citizen from another
state present, and am sure you will give
Boston. Va
MI. Beard was greeted with applause. He
said:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Port
| land Club:
1t seems to me, Massachusetts man. liz
tie strange to speak on politics to Maine
audience. we OF Massachusetts, are in the
habit OF calling on Maine Senators and Rep
resentatlves Tor political instruction On
| my note OF invitation it was stated that there
would be several gentlemen present who
would make speeches; and while was in
| formed that | might be expected to make a
| few remarks, l supposed that / should be
called upon only TO fill up gap I
lind, however, that l am called upon to ieliy
er the address of the evening. l shall not
uetaln tDe members OF the club long, as my
midst OF a political campaign now, and the
issues for one are hardly formed In the
cars with me today was man, who said that
under the new administration there had hap
ptned hothing disastrous, as had been proph-
esied., And why? Because the Democrats
nave been living under the policy of the Re-
| publican party. The two years of Demo-
cratic administration have been complete
vlndlcation of the Republican administers
| ton. There has been no departure from
Republican policy. In the administrative
department of the government, a great MANY
RepuDncans have been turned out. but we
have not heard OF any rascals. You will re-
member That the old cry was turn the rascals
out. Some OF the new appointees, believe,
1t has been necessary to retire.
ne country today Is prosperous but we
| are progressing and new legislation is de-
manded. The Democratic party has showed
sS eti Ia tne past two years incapable of leg
| puDllcans leftundone. Take the bankruptcy
| law which is needed over all the land. They
have done nothing. The coinage of the sill
yer dollar worth only eighty-five cents goes
| on. The question of the basis upon which
our banking system is founded is a vital
one 1t Is great political question but it is
| not party question. Under the protective
tariff, established by the Republican party.
the balance of trade has been in our favor.
put Jet succession OF poor crops or any 9TH
er cause, lead to reversal of that balance
ana we would feel in a disastrous manner
the lack OF a unit of value which would com
mand an equivalent in foreign markets.
PRESIDENT Cleveland has made some recon-
mendatlons on this subject, but his party, in
| garded his suggestions.
we have in Massachusetts, and | presume
| you have in Maine, those who are very
anxious to have 1t understood that the war
Is over. When we demand safeguards to
| protect the ballot, the Democratic party
cries for the freedom of elections. They
nave made 1t their policy to remove what
safeguards there were around the ballot and
| deny TO us the protection wanted to secure
H no9niest elections and fair count ia Boston,
Chlcago and other large cities. The law
providing Tor the supervision of elections
mas Deen openly disregarded by Attorney
General Garland, member of President
Cleyeland's cabinet, who issued a letter to
alton of the law.
Another question of importance to us is
| the question of revenue. The Democratic
| party, with the exception of Samuel j. Ran
Dali and some Others whom they dare not set
| aside, favor a reduction of the tariff, What
| is to be done with the surplus of our reye-
nue.? Can it be wiped out by reducing the
duties placed upon imports to protect Amer
| lean manufacturers. Some time ago we lis
tened to the cry for a decrease of the tariff,
ana have In my pocket something to show
how the reduction works. For the three
years before the reduction we received for
| uutles on wooden yarns S110l,S18. For the
| Inree years succeeding, we received 50, 49,
9ol. instead OF reducing the amount of du-
| ties we doubled that sum two and one-ouar-
| ter times
:, Mr.. Beard also read figures showing sim
| mar increase In revenue from the reduction
OF duties in worsted goods. Continuing he
SAID: You see that reduction of the duties
does not decrease the amount of revenue
| what, then, are we to do? We have duty
on sugar which protects nobody but a few
| people in Louisiana. We can take off that
duty without increasing the importation, for
we can afford to pay a bounty to our few
| sugar growers.
Then we have system of internal revenue
| foreign to our system of government and
under which the people are FESTIVE. This
tax might be removed. But we are met with
cry: "Oh, you are going to make whiskey
Tree. DC you suppose that people are going
to drink any more whiskey without the tax
than with it? 1t seems to me that the Pro-
hlbltionists of Maine hardly want the quasi
endorsement OF the whiskey manufacture
given by the government tax With it re-
moved States can meet the liquor question
without any participation by the general
| government in the traffic.
believe that the reduction made in the
tariff on wooden goods was unwise. don
believe it has cheapened those goods.
Had the American manufacturers been
allowed to run their mills on full time and
to improve their apparatus, believe they
| would have been able to sell their goods as
cheaply as they are sold under the reduced
tariff.
Every protectionist will admit that there
| should be no duty upon raw materials, but
| you can not make an arbitrary law fixing
| what shall be considered as raw material.
| What is raw material to one may not be raw
material to another.
Mr.. Beard illustrated his statement by
facts regarding the wool growing interest
and its conditions under the various phases
Of tariff legislation.
In the North we have some free trade SEN
timent among the professional men and the
Independent press. / believe that in the
South protection is growing. Virginia is a
| protection state. don't think that Repub-
| licans in the north did their duty by Virginia
| when Senator Malone was defeated. The
Democratic party in Virginia talks one
| hundred cents on the dollar and pays moth
ing. Is not Mr.. Mahone's method better
| when he says that the state can not pay her
full debt but will pay what she can. Then
again, Mr.. Malone is a protectionist and
such men are needed in the Senate which is
closely divided on the tariff question.
Ihese are business questions and should
pc thoroughly considered. In Massachu-
setts we have good many "isms, and there
are good many things done by men whom
regard as very small. but we are capable of
giving hearty support to the noIrinee of
the republican party year from now, who
ever he may be. (Appause1 / need not re-
refer to the condition of the country when
the Republican party took charge of its AT
fairs or Of its growth since then.